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Chris, aspiring Marxist

@WriteToRebel

5 months

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Chris, aspiring Marxist

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2 years

My grandpa just said an incredible old man phrase, which is “I’m tellin’ six-foot jokes and everybody’s five ten”

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Famously, the scientist who came up with the concept of the “alpha male” in wolves later realized that these dynamics only emerge in captivity, when different males are thrown together randomly. In the wild, wolves have strong familial bonds and don’t compete that way.

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Name other scholars beside Oppenheimer who spent their later years running away from their early work

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Keffiyah horse you have to stop. Your swag too tough. Your mane too different. They’ll kill you Keffiyah horse

Ala Hamdan • الاء حمدان

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تكساس اليوم: أحلام العصر.

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To his immense credit, he dedicated a large portion of his life to militating against his own work. There are stories of him trying to pull his own books from shelves. He was very aware of the ways his work had been misinterpreted and did his level best to stop it.

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All of D&D is explicable once you know that Gary Gygax was both a race essentialist and an insurance actuary

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Karl Marx: gayest person who ever lived

⭒ Dylan ⭒

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I knew it

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Nothing about this country is worth salvaging and nothing ever has been

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@nypost

6 years

Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice hired as a cop again

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@Vaxmaxxed Well, sure, but the other takeaway is that these kinds of behaviors can be influenced by environment and community. There’s nothing inevitable about “alpha” behavior, it can be modulated by community and resources

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Is this a thing? He seemed surprised that I’d never heard it before

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He’s 89, if the timeline helps

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6 years

This is a very aggressive sign

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3 years

Type “Marx failed to consider” and let your predictive text write the rest

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6 years

Please look at this

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2 years

It would be cool if you could retweet this, which I only say because I’d like to show my grandpa

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4 years

This photo has 5 people in it

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4 years

@NickClairmont1 Expectation: "LGBTQ people will never thrive in a country powered by capitalism." Reality:

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This is what a good therapist looks like. They acknowledge your symptoms and *adapt to them.* It’s not about making you “normal” it’s about making you *functional.* That looks different for different people

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5 years

Why is the response to this “fuck old people” and not “this is cool, let’s make it universal?”

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

@NBCNightlyNews

5 years

Hundreds of baby boomers are taking classes at the University of Minnesota as part of its Senior Citizen Education Program — and all for just $10 per credit. “This is our opportunity to study those things we’ve spent a lifetime being curious about,” one student tells @KevTibs .

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Remember when I talked about the conflation of queerness with nonnormativity? This is a list of things that college students think make them “queer.”

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@Curtisburch8 Absolutely cursed type of guy

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@NoOneofCons @MissPavIichenko “Ah say—I say, A’hm tellin’ six-foot jokes and EV’rybody’s five ten”

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7 years

"You like communism?" Yeah. "Communists took my grandfather's 1000-acre farm away." It's great, I know

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3 years

Stop taking mental health advice from dancing tweens

𝒩𝑜𝓉𝓉𝓎 🧚🏾

@nottydesignss

3 years

saw a tik tok that said “once you healed from something, stop discussing it.” you can’t focus on present when you keep discussing the past.

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@Vaxmaxxed The point is that the research had significant methodological caveats and it’s silly to imagine that it applies to all wolves, let alone members of a different and more intelligent species

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@Frenlyguyfrog 👍

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@Vaxmaxxed Well, sure, but the other takeaway is that these kinds of behaviors can be influenced by environment and community. There’s nothing inevitable about “alpha” behavior, it can be modulated by community and resources

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The existence of poverty is child abuse

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Fuck lmao

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God this is so weird. Why are people taking sides in a deal between two corporations as though it’s a particularly bitter breakup? I am profoundly unsettled by this.

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stop saying ‘fuck sony’, fuck disney instead pls

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Resisting arrest is a fake crime

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Please take this personally: I hate you and everyone you love

chrissy teigen

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my mom treats her air pods like they're disposable. buys a few a month. she says they would be easier to not lose if they had....a cord

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Of course “Marx and Lenin” didn’t save the Vietnamese people, they did that themselves. But Marxism-Leninism is not reducible to Marx and Lenin. It is a method, a philosophy of practice, that the Vietnamese took up.

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This remains the funniest headline

Bloomberg

@business

7 years

Know who liked tall buildings? Stalin

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“Socially constructed” doesn’t mean “fake.”

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English communist parties creep me out. You could say they give me the CPGBs.

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Everyone stop what you’re doing and look at this.

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Absolute solidarity with every single one of these people. The masses have boundless creative power

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In an attempt avoid their tents from being seized, students put their tents on chairs as to “comply” with administration. When police and UNC facility crew came to forcibly remove the tents, protestors collectively lifted up their tents and marched around the quad.

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“I have to do breathing exercises to remember that workers are human” is perhaps the most mind-boggling thing I’ve read this week

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The aids crisis was a genocide

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Bill Gates could be the best, most altruistic person in the world (and he sure isn’t!) and it still wouldn’t matter. The problem is that he got his wealth through brutal exploitation and now he essentially directs global health policy with zero oversight. Who elected him?

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I shouldn’t be surprised by stuff like this anymore but it’s revealing that an official pig twitter account can call a crowd of poor racialized people useless and get away with it

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With unemployment at an all time low why aren’t these useless members of society working?

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Nice ideology, nerd, did the bourgeoisie pick it out for you

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The Commodification of the LGBT community has reached new heights

Queen Bean🍳: Redux

@HatsuneMishu

5 years

GAY PEOPLE ARE LEGAL CURRENCY NOW

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FREE THEM

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It’s actually incredible and inspiring that Maduro was a bus driver. The potential of the working class is limitless. We can win.

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Stop using organizing spaces as dating pools you stupid fucks

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I haven’t met nearly as many Marxists at school as Ben Shapiro would have me believe. But one of my professors is a communist from the former USSR and takes absolutely no bullshit about it. Her lectures are works of art

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2 years

I am fucking begging you, watch real movies

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6 years

Hey please don’t mention “incel” and “sex workers” in the same sentence unless the sentence is “sex workers don’t deserve to be victimized by incels.”

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I love these articles that are like “this unambiguously good person was a communist and that’s bad” because the writers have to do all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid connecting those things

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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Opinion: Paul Robeson was an unrepentant Stalinist. Rutgers should acknowledge that.

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Shaggy is an anarchist, Fred is a demsoc, Daphne is a “libertarian Marxist” and Velma is ML

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6 years

White supremacy is an expression of class interest, exhibit 4,000

Harsha Walia

@HarshaWalia

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Horrifying. Anti-homeless group joining w/white supremacists Soldiers of Odin against homeless tent city. Tent city has daily vigilantism against them - stones, bottles, paintball guns directed at mostly #Indigenous residents. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanpoli

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Me, a sociology 101 student: whoa, have you guys heard of this thing called power. fucked up.

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I looked up some clips and this is barely an exaggeration. Finkelstein calls him a “fantastic moron” and a “motor mouth”

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DESTINY: ok whatIthink ishappeninghere is a binary fallacy andwhat NORM FINKELSTEIN: MR BENELLI, I FORGET YOUR NAME. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN READ

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“The Gulag Archipelago” is not “one perspective on the Soviet Union,” it’s a work of fiction written by a Nazi.

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Just overheard a professor describe China as “politically communist but free market,” which is more evidence that if you’re an academic you can just make shit up.

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My favorite thing on here is when communists write long threads about how it’s actually revolutionary to have whatever hobby they have. Anyway, here’s why Marx would approve of me spending all my money on tiny finger skateboards

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If AOCs defenders are correct that she absolutely needed to vote to fund ICE, maybe they ought to reconsider the efficacy of electoralism

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You vs the guy she told you not to worry about

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I know it’s twitter so the instinct is to dunk on this, but I assure you Bloomberg Opinion knows what capitalism is and how it works. They’re not stupid, they’re lying to you.

Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion

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Capitalism isn’t working right. The U.S. economy is growing, but workers are seeing less and less of the benefits

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@jfk_420 I just found out myself and something clicked lmao

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Goals, mood, etc

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A fucking congressperson just did a fake woke toddler tweet. What a time to be alive

Rashida Tlaib

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"Mama, why is everyone talking about capitalism, socialism? Why can't it be peopleism?" --My 13 year old son Me: "Can I use that?" #ProudMamainCongress

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One of the points she makes fairly often is that, whatever mistakes you think the soviets made, we can historicize them and envision alternatives. But capitalism is structurally exploitative. There’s no possible world in which a generally benevolent capitalism can exist.

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Heard a story about a local soviet that took up legal cases a month after the revolution. There was a pile of cases concerning peasants who had stolen wood from their landlord’s forest. The lawyer’s solution was to “pick up that file and shove it in the stove.”

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Irony is actually bad and caring about things is actually good

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The KKK was started by fraternity brothers

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This would also be good. Shut up loser.

Lee Fang

@lhfang

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Why not reparations for the millions of human beings killed by wars waged overtly and covertly by the US government in Vietnam, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Panama, and so on?

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“THE STATE ISN’T MY REAL DAD.”

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The floor is Liberalism

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I don’t feel like “people only read the headlines” handwringing pays enough attention to paywalls

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Remember when a story broke that amazon was hiring neo-nazis to guard immigrant pickers in a German warehouse? That should’ve been bigger than it was.

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Self-care has absolutely shifted from a notion of creating collective healing spaces outside the purview of capital and towards an idea of selfishness as a radical value.

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There are US states with a higher illiteracy rate than Bolivia before Morales.

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Do you think First Nations and thr modern nation-state are the same? Cause that’s not even what anarchism says about states

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6 years

Freed and compensated

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“I lie to women and then they get mad at me. Please help me through this difficult time.”

𝖛𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖘 瘋癲媛 🖤🎀

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lol

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Stalin made mistakes but that’s not a useful statement independent of the material conditions in which he operated. What was the international situation like? How organized were internal enemies? How developed were the productive forces? These are much more important questions.

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I hate this and you

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Elizabeth Warren raising her hand for every question just proves that she’s the Hermione we need

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Fuck civility, we should be doing this

Punished ‘Venom’ Sara

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Today’s mood: Irish suffragette Mary Maloney who followed Winston Churchill around for a week ringing a large bell whenever he attempted to speak

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John McCain is dead and that’s great, but he wasn’t sentenced by a revolutionary people’s tribunal which is an indictment of our movement

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🔒: the beatles are known for brilliant lyrics like "this ever changing world in which we live in" and masterful rhymes like "minds that hate / have to wait", all inspired by hating chinese communists, a courageous stance that no one expected from rich english guys in the sixties

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Rest in power, Ursula

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It is legitimately horrifying that this is a question you can pose without immediately being arrested

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@RaxKingIsDead I just looked this up, Bob Ritchie is Kid Rock’s given name. I’m freaking out

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I’m not a defender of Objective Truth by any means but this seems like a bad thing for a major corporation to say

Jon Ippolito 🐘 @[email protected]

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Samsung now has a defense of its phone's AI-altering photos of the Moon: "There is no such thing as a real picture." Paging @e_salvaggio (not to mention Cindy Sherman) 🐘♻️

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I have two political beliefs: dogs should be allowed to vote and every raccoon should be given a knife.

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@eugen_levine Academia is full of nonsense but queer theory has the most nonsense per cubic inch

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HEY UHHH THIS SEEMS IMPORTANT

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This is why we’re Marxists

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IBEW Electrical worker staring down DHS lines in Portland after Occupy ICE blockaded the facility - #FamiliesBelongTogether

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Disabled person here: don’t you dare use me to justify crossing a picket line.

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Idk man generational warfare creeps me out. There are elderly people starving to death because their benefits have been cut.

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The situation in Venezuela really shows that American liberalism ends at the border. The coup forces are basically alt-right, and yet liberals can’t bring themselves to denounce them

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Pointing out during my trial that actually my major influences are Marx and Lenin, so technically I’m not an anarchist I’m a—

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This is absolutely incomprehensible. Do mice otherwise have a system of exchange by which cheese is distributed?

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Nobody is actually anti-authoritarian. When pushed, there’s always a point at which they think force is a permissible political tool

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6 years

Danny DeVito is...good?

Atlanta Black Star

@ATLBlackStar

6 years

Danny DeVito Doubles Down on His Criticism of America: 'It's a Racist Country Built on the Boards of Genocide" #ABSArchives

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Capitalism: here’s 4 million brands of toothpaste to choose from, fuckers. Have fun dying of malnutrition and overwork.

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Self-crit: I bought into the “critique” of MFF because I think transparency is generally good and I didn’t know it was a well-poisoning tactic from fascists. Having read more, it actually makes total sense that a volunteer bail fund would be slow in dispersing millions of dollars

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